Later, aggregator
Wednesday, February 16, 2005
I find I'm using my browser less and less often to, well, browse. Other than a few regular sites of interest such as soccernet or Amazon my time on the web is increasingly spent with blogs.
Building up a list of blogs to read is like creating your ideal daily paper. You can choose to get some headlines and then add whole reams of opinion pieces. Better yet, with a decent aggregator you can get all your blog reading done in once place. Up til now I've been using the Sage extension in my Firefox browser. Yesterday, however, I was pointed towards a thing called Onfolio by Scoble in his blog. Now Scoble is a technology evangelist at Microsoft and I read his blog daily. Who would have thunk it? Given my general opinion of Microsoft, the fact that Scoble works there, talks such eminent sense, and is obviously cherished by Microsoft, means I'm having to revise my level of antipathy towards the great beast of Redmond.
Blogs are the collective voice of those who believe they should be heard. That's all of us. Aggregators are the tools that let you focus on the voices you want to hear. Google was the tool that made the vast amount of information on the web navigable. Aggregators can do a similar job for blogs.
Building up a list of blogs to read is like creating your ideal daily paper. You can choose to get some headlines and then add whole reams of opinion pieces. Better yet, with a decent aggregator you can get all your blog reading done in once place. Up til now I've been using the Sage extension in my Firefox browser. Yesterday, however, I was pointed towards a thing called Onfolio by Scoble in his blog. Now Scoble is a technology evangelist at Microsoft and I read his blog daily. Who would have thunk it? Given my general opinion of Microsoft, the fact that Scoble works there, talks such eminent sense, and is obviously cherished by Microsoft, means I'm having to revise my level of antipathy towards the great beast of Redmond.
Blogs are the collective voice of those who believe they should be heard. That's all of us. Aggregators are the tools that let you focus on the voices you want to hear. Google was the tool that made the vast amount of information on the web navigable. Aggregators can do a similar job for blogs.
